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GAME.

(Application filed Oct. 23, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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GAME.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,057, dated. December 31, 1901.

Application filed October 28, 1901- To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Gnonen LEWIS HoroH- KIsS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plainville, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Game, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in games.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and comparatively inexpens'ive game which will possess the characteristics of base-ball and billiards and pool and which will be adapted to afford amusement for a number of players.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claimshereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a game-board constructed in accord ance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional View of the same.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a rectangular game-board designed to be constructed of wood or any other suitable material and adapted to be made of various sizes, and it may, if desired, form the top of a table and be provided with supporting-legs' The rectangular board is provided at its edges with a marginal flange 2 to prean inclined way 5, consisting of a channel or groove gradually increasing in depth and arranged parallel with the side edges of the game-board, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings. At the sides of the board are arranged cushions 6, consisting, preferably, of wires stretched between pins 7 and spaced apart at the corners of the board to form openings or ways, and the said corners of the board represent the home base, the first base, the second base, and the third base. The pins 7 are embedded in the board at the sides of the field, and the wires are suitcushion may be employed for causing the balls to rebound and for preventing them from en- Serial No. 79,736. (No model.)

tering the inclined way except as hereinafter explained.

At the centerof the field is arranged asmall diamond or rectangle S, which may be marked oif in any suitable manner, or a rectangular space of a color different from the rest of the field may be provided for designating the place for spotting the cue-ball 3 at the commencement of an inning. A similar but slightly smaller diamond or rectangular space 9 is arranged at the home corner and at the entrance of the inclined way for designating the place or point at which the object-ball is spotted.

The corner space or entrance 10 between the cushions 6 at the left-hand side of the field is the first base, and the space or en trance ll opposite the home corner is the second base, and the space or entrance 12 at the right-hand side of the field is the third base. After the balls have been spotted the player leading off takes the position at the second base and with a cue (not shown) drives the cue-ball 3 in the direction of the object-ball and endeavors to cause the object-ball 4: to roll into the inclined Way 5, which surrounds the field. If he succeeds in accomplishing this result, the object-ball will roll slowly around the field to the home corner, and if uninterrupted, as hereinafter explained, will constitute one run.

Within the home corner is arranged an ap proximately U-shaped cushion 13, having an extended'side l4 and provided with a curved back portion adapted to cause the cue-ball to return to the field-say to the position illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the accompanyingdrawings. Then the player whoisopposed to the first player endeavors to roll the cue-ball through one of the open spaces or entrances at the corners of the field into the inclined way at a point directly in advance of the object-ball. If the second player succeeds in this attempt either at the first, second, or third base corners, the run does not count and the object-ball is put out. The first player in attempting to roll the objectball into the inclined way has three trials, which correspond to the strikes of a player in a game of base-ball, and if the player does not succeed in putting the object-ball in the 2 seeps? inclined way he is out,'and threesuch outs constitute an inning. Nine innings constitute a game, and the player or side, if more than two players take part in the game, making the larger number of runs wins the game; If there be a tie, one or more innings may be played to decide the game.

The cue-ball and the object-ball are de signed to be of different colors, and the cushion at the home corner, which may be constructed of stout wire, can be made of any other suitable material. The long side of the corner-cushion extends to the adjacent side cushion, and the other or shorter side terminates at one side of the entrance to the inclined way.

It Will be seen that the game is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to afford a great amount of amusement to a numberof persons, and that it may be constructed of various sizes to adapt it for both young and old persons. What I claim is l. A game comprising a game-board having a field and provided with an inclined way surrounding the field, cushions arranged at the sides of the field, said cushions being spaced apart to provide entrances to the way, and balls, substantially as described.

2. A game comprising a game-board having a field and provided with an inclined Way arranged outside the field, cushions located at the sides of the-field and spaced apart, and a cushion arranged at the end entrance to the channel and adapted to return a cue-ball to the field, substantially as described.

3. A game comprising a game-board having a field and provided with an inclined way ex tending around the field, cushions arranged at the sides of the field and spaced apart to provide entrances to the way, an object-ball designed to be arranged adjacent to the entrance of the way, a cue-ball designed to be arranged in the field, and a cushion arranged atthe and entrance to the inclined way and adapted to return the cue-ball to the field, substantially as described.

a rectangular field and provided with an inclined way extending around the field, the straight cushions located at the sides of the field and spaced apart at the corners'thereof, balls, and a curved cushion arranged at the end entrance to the inclined way and adapted to return a cue-ball to the field, substantially as "described.

5. A game comprising a game-board having a field and provided with an inclined way arranged outside of the field and consisting of a groove or channel, side cushions arranged at the sides of the field and spaced apart to form entrances to the way, and a cushion arranged at the end entrance to the way and adapted to return a cue-ball to the field, substantially as described.

6. A game comprising agame-board having amarginal flange and provided with an inclined way consisting of a groove or channel extending around the board, the side cushions at. A game comprising a game-board having spaced apart and consisting of wires and suitable snpports, and the approximately U- shaped corner-cushion extending from one of the side cushions to one side of the groove or channel, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses. A

GEORGE LEWIS HOTCI-IKISS. 

